Media's post-budget polls reveal a broken news machine
The Australian media remains obsessed with its own polls. But what's more important is how outlets like Nine and News Corp frame them.
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The Australian media remains obsessed with its own polls. But what's more important is how outlets like Nine and News Corp frame them.
Pro-nuclear pundits are using push-polling tricks to sway opinions which include biased preliminary comments, biased questions, limited response options and misreporting the findings. Jim Green reports.
Unbiased opinion polls find that support for nuclear power in Australia falls short of a majority, that Australians much prefer renewables, and most do not want nuclear reactors built near where they live.
Anyone reading the Australian’s Newspoll survey might think there was an actual proposal in place to build small modular nuclear reactors around Australia – except there isn’t<br>
The decline in support for the Voice after initial strong polling demonstrates settlers are resistant to the idea of Indigenous peoples as a collective subject entitled to a unified Voice.